22 LUNDY ISLAND. 



said he, "a vessel came on shore in that very spot : 

 walking here one morning early I discovered her on 

 the rocks ; she was a Norwegian brig in ballast, out- 

 ward-bound ; all hands were saved, but it was only 

 by means of ropes passed down to them by our people, 

 by which they were hauled up those cliffs that you 

 think so easy to climb/' 



We now came to the Half-way Wall, so called be- 

 cause it cuts the island transversely in the middle. 

 Its eastern extremity, close to which we stood, ter- 

 minates in a huge mass of granite, on which a cubical 

 (or rather parallel-sided) block, about fifteen feet high 

 by eight wide, stands. It was formerly a true logan- 

 stone, being so poised by nature that it could be 

 rocked by the hands of those who had nerve enough 

 to stand on its narrow and lofty base, as our friend 

 had often done. Now, however, it has slipped out of 

 its equilibrium into a crevice, and is immovable ; the 

 action of the weather, as is supposed, having worn 

 away its base. 



The paths through the heath, and the open spots 

 in many places, showed the power of atmospheric- 

 action to change the condition of the solid rock. 

 These were covered with a sort of gravel, composed 

 of white fragments about the size of peas, very uni- 

 form in appearance, which, when examined, proved 

 to be nodules of quartz, liberated by the natural dis- 

 integration of the granite. A large quantity might 

 be collected with little expense of time or labour. 



